RAEFORD, N.C. (AP) — A funeral is to be held for a member of the North Carolina National Guard killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.

Staff Sgt. Donna Johnson of Raeford is set to be buried Saturday in a cemetery in her hometown. The internment will follow a funeral service at the Raeford Presbyterian Church.

The 29-year-old soldier was killed October 1 with two other members of the Winterville-based 514th Military Police Company. They died when a Taliban suicide bomber rammed a motorcycle packed with explosives into a joint U.S.-Afghan patrol in Khost, Afghanistan.

Johnson was a former correctional officer who joined the National Guard in 2006 and deployed to Iraq the following year.